Paroxyclaenidae

Paroxyclaenidae; Temporal range: 56.0–29.0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early Eocene to middle Oligocene
	fossil of Kopidodon macrognathus
	fossil of Paroxyclaenus lemuroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Mirorder:	Ferae
Order:	†Pantolesta
Family:	†Paroxyclaenidae; Weitzel, 1933
Type genus
	†Paroxyclaenus; Teilhard de Chardin, 1922
Genera
	[see classification]

Paroxyclaenidae ("near Oxyclaenus") is an extinct family of placental mammals from extinct order Pantolesta, that lived in Pakistan^[2] and Europe from the early Eocene to middle Oligocene.^[3]^[4]

Classification and phylogeny

Family: †Paroxyclaenidae (Weitzel, 1933) Subfamily: †Merialinae (Russell & Godinot, 1988) Genus: †Fratrodon (Solé, 2019) †Fratrodon tresvauxi (Solé, 2019) Genus: †Merialus (Russell & Godinot, 1988) †Merialus bruneti (Solé, 2019) †Merialus martinae (Russell & Godinot, 1988) Genus: †Paraspaniella (Solé, 2019) †Paraspaniella gunnelli. (Solé, 2019) Genus: †Spaniella (Crusafont-Pairo & Russell, 1968) †Spaniella carezi (Crusafont-Pairo & Russell, 1968) Genus: †Welcommoides (Solé, 2024) †Welcommoides gurki (Solé, 2024) Subfamily: †Paroxyclaeninae (Weitzel, 1933) Genus: †Kopidodon (Weitzel, 1933) †Kopidodon macrognathus (Wittich, 1902) Genus: †Paravulpavoides (Harrison, 2009) †Paravulpavoides cooperi (Hooker, 1986) Genus: †Paroxyclaenus (Teilhard de Chardin, 1922) †Paroxyclaenus lemuroides (Teilhard de Chardin, 1922) Genus: †Pugiodens (Matthes, 1952) †Pugiodens mirus (Matthes, 1952) Genus: †Sororodon (Solé, 2019) †Sororodon tresvauxae (Solé, 2019) Genus: †Vulpavoides (Matthes, 1952) †Vulpavoides germanica (Matthes, 1952) †Vulpavoides simplicidens (Van Valen, 1965) †Vulpavoides vanvaleni (Russell & Godinot, 1988)

^ Weitzel, K. (1933.) "Kopidodon macrognathus Wittitch, ein Raubtier aus dem Mitteleozän von Messel." Notizblatt des Vereins für Erdkunde und der Hessischen Geologischen Landesanstalt zu Darmstadt, 14, 81–88.
^ Solé, Floréal; Baqri, Syed Rafiqul Hassan; Iqbal, Nayyer; Roohi, Ghazala; Benammi, Mouloud; Crochet, Jean-Yves; De Franceschi, Dario; Antoine, Pierre-Olivier; Marandat, Bernard; Métais, Grégoire; Marivaux, Laurent (30 October 2024). "An unexpected late paroxyclaenid (Mammalia, Cimolesta) out of Europe: dental evidence from the Oligocene of the Bugti Hills, Pakistan". Papers in Palaeontology. 10 (6). Bibcode:2024PPal...10E1599S. doi:10.1002/spp2.1599. ISSN 2056-2799. Retrieved 29 May 2025 – via Wiley Online Library.
^ L. Van Valen (1967.) "New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(5):217-284
^ Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level in Columbia University Press, New York (1997), 631 Seiten. Paroxyclaenidae